The Latest Breaking News from Olympics

Torch relay for Milan Cortina Winter Olympics starts on 2-month countdown to opening ceremony

Olympic swimming champion Gregorio Paltrinieri started off the torch relay for the Milan Cortina Winter Games on Saturday marking exactly two months before the Feb. 6 opening ceremony

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2025

'We're here because we deserve to be' – Irish cycling's journey from 'underdog' status to an unfazed force

After the nation's most successful year in recent history, Cyclingnews spoke to Irish stars Lara Gillespie and Ben Healy on the Emerald Isle's changing mindset as it eyes a return to cycling's top table

Cycling News · Dec 5, 2025

Former Olympic athlete coughing up blood after landlord 'left him living with black mould for years'

Marcus Adam is one of just 128 athletes in history to have competed in both the Winter and Summer Olympics

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2025

Ligety and Street join NBC broadcast team covering ski racing at Milan Cortina Games

U.S. ski racing greats Ted Ligety and Picabo Street have joined the NBC broadcasting team for the Milan Cortina Winter Games in February

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2025

Olympic stars given protection from online abuse by AI app

The app screens for abusive words and phrases on several social media platforms and automatically filters them out

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2025

Tadej Pogačar's final challenges: An Olympic title – the cherry on top which might end up eluding him

Can the modern GOAT cap off his list of achievements with an Olympic title, or might that be the one major title he can't secure?

Cycling News · Dec 4, 2025

Olympic flame for Milan Cortina Winter Games handed to Italian organizers in Athens

The Olympic flame for the Milan Cortina Winter Games has been formally handed to Italian organizers in a ceremony in the all-marble stadium in central Athens where the first modern Olympics were held nearly 130 years ago

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2025

Believe, belong, become, boring, bizarre: Brisbane Olympics motto panned as ‘lazy and weirdly evangelical’

Advertising expert questions origins of slogan selected by Games organisers who hail its ‘significant symbolism’

The Guardian - AU · Dec 4, 2025

New Winter Olympics logo gets icy response: "It's giving Chinese restaurant"

Designers aren’t holding back the scathing reactions.

Creative Bloq · Dec 3, 2025

Russia claims its blanket ban on competing at the Winter Olympics has been overturned

Russia claimed the ban had been overturned on Tuesday

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2025